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Commit 41a15855 authored by Johan Hovold's avatar Johan Hovold Committed by Jason A. Donenfeld
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efi: random: fix NULL-deref when refreshing seed



Do not try to refresh the RNG seed in case the firmware does not support
setting variables.

This is specifically needed to prevent a NULL-pointer dereference on the
Lenovo X13s with some firmware revisions, or more generally, whenever
the runtime services have been disabled (e.g. efi=noruntime or with
PREEMPT_RT).

Fixes: e7b813b3 ("efi: random: refresh non-volatile random seed when RNG is initialized")
Reported-by: default avatarSteev Klimaszewski <steev@kali.org>
Reported-by: default avatarBjorn Andersson <andersson@kernel.org>
Tested-by: default avatarSteev Klimaszewski <steev@kali.org>
Tested-by: Andrew Halaney <ahalaney@redhat.com> # sc8280xp-lenovo-thinkpad-x13s
Signed-off-by: default avatarJohan Hovold <johan+linaro@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
parent 6bb20c15
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